In addition to
"The General" resigning, and
the situation in Georgia, Newsnight tonight (BBC2, 1030pm) will focus on water being the new oil. This is from Newsnight's daily email on what's coming up on their programme:
"Water scarcity - and its consequent problems - has leapt up the list of concerns of the military and defence world. We report from Mexico City - where water levels are dropping faster than Venice, Kenya - where it's estimated half the African continent could be suffering from 'water stress' within 25 years, and the West Bank, where water consumption has become one of the main obstacles to peace."
In addition to "The General" resigning, and the situation in Georgia, Newsnight tonight (BBC2, 1030pm) will focus on water being the new oil. This is from Newsnight's daily email on what's coming up on their programme:
4 comments:
I saw the Newsnight piece on water scarcity too. Either it will lead to conflict (they mentioned local fights over water, and the CIA flagged water as a potential cause of conflict many years ago), or it will lead to cooperation. If we devoted as much effort and money to the basics of life as we do to the basics of death, we could all live happily. Even the Sahel will remain inhabitable when we put in place a massive programme of reforestation (starting at the coast, and working inland http://www.greenhealth.org.uk/DesertRose.htm)
together with water harvesting and storage technologies.
In fact, we can either save the planetary environment or continue with our military madness.
We cannot do both.
Someone should tell Gordon Brown.
The Guardian has a number of interesting articles on this today as well.
http://www2.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
shows that the above Chinese message is a bit of "adult" spam.
It posted the same thing about 600 times throughout my blog! My first spam attack ...
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